50 Nominees for Best New Restaurant in America 2013

After running a successful pop-up of the same name, 26-year-old chef Ari Taymor opened Alma on a (relatively) seedy block of downtown L.A. The clean, white-walled room looks more like an art gallery than a restaurant, and the food (sea urchin toast with burrata; sweet corn soup with nasturtium ice cream) defies categorization

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Andrew Knowlton, the Bon Appétit Foodist, spent countless hours and traveled thousands of miles in search of America’s Best New Restaurants (see the winners in our Hot 10 feature). After way too many dinners alone at the bar, he returned home with this list of 50 trendsetting nominees–from New York’s Alder to Charleston’s Xiao Bao Biscuit.

After running a successful pop-up of the same name, 26-year-old chef Ari Taymor opened Alma on a (relatively) seedy block of downtown L.A. The clean, white-walled room looks more like an art gallery than a restaurant, and the food (sea urchin toast with burrata; sweet corn soup with nasturtium ice cream) defies categorization